Hi all, hope someone out there can help as we need to get our development platform back up and running ASAP. Our developers have installed SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation which is running on one of our development servers. The eval has timed out:
2012-09-18 11:20:22.58 Server Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (RTM) - 10.50.1617.0 (X64)
Apr 22 2011 19:23:43
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
Enterprise Evaluation Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 <X64> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) (Hypervisor)
2012-09-18 11:20:22.78 Server SQL Server evaluation period has expired.
We have downloaded from our MSDN subscription the SQL 2008 R2 Standard edition. We wish to replace/upgrade the eval with the MSDN subscription version. Is there any way of doing this without a complete uninstall/reinstall. I have read that we can replace the PID by locating the key on the Media from MSDN however when I try to do that and install using the Installation centre it says the product key is not valid.
Does anyone have any idea how we can do this without risk of losing data. Unfortunately I am not a SQL expert but am willing to follow instructions and take any help offered.
Thanks in advance.